Okay ladies (and gents): Get out from under your crinolines, prom dresses, quilts and costumes and check in with us! I have visions of Tom being rolled down the streets of New York having eaten too much (sorry, I'm still envious!), Joy getting mugged by American Doll collectors for her patterns, Cea being locked up for bopping Bridezilla for one two many outbursts (the first one - it saves us the agony!) and Kate getting into goodness knows what trouble.... Melinda, I expect, has just been swamped.....(literally and physically!) Two days and no posts............I might have to go back down and actually sew those costumes I've been avoiding! Cynthia
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:02:39 -0800, the inscrutable "Cynthia Spilsted" spake:
Larry reporting in, Maam. No crinoline to report.
I just restocked my foam sheeting, 1" velcro, urethane-backed ballistic nylon, and naugahyde binding for another run of my laptop glare guards. Having made about two dozen of them so far on the (new to me) used Consew 210, I'm finally getting used to working on the machine and really like it.
The exception is the thread. I go along merrily for 20' or so and the thread loses one of its strands, bunching up against the feed side of the needle. This is #46 black nylon, new on a 1/4 lb. spool. Losing a yard of naugahyde binding each time that happens ($55 a spool) is no fun.
Perhaps they were all arrested by the Homeland Security forces for quilting without a license, the nasty terrorists! (I'll let you figure out who are the terrorists.)
Mmmm, good time for gator gumbo.
Git on it, girl! (Costumes?)
--- After they make styrofoam, what do they ship it in? --Steven Wright
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Well, since ya asked! Here's a bit from a letter I wrote my cousin in the U.S.: On Sat. Feb 19th, Harri came home from a party, slipped on an icy patch outside our apartment building and fell against the doorway on his way in. He had a concussion from this as well as a gash on his forehead so he threw-up in the stairwell. At about 4 am I woke-up and started worrying about what had happened to Harri. I heard something making noise in the stairwell and went to the front door to check. Imagine my chock when I opened the door to find him standing there in the dark with blood on his head and vomit down the front of his jacket! He looked like something out of a horror movie!
I couldn?t get much out of him at first and was more concerned about getting him cleaned-up anyway, so it wasn?t until the next day that I could piece together the entire story. Harri didn?t want to go to the doctor and the wound on his head wasn?t back enough to need stitches, so I just kept an eye on him at home, checked his pupils, etc. He?s better now, but it took a couple of weeks for him to stop feeling dizzy when he moved his head suddenly.
On a happier note I am getting ready for this years Konstrunda (Open Studio Days). It will be for 3 days (May 5-7) and this year I intend to build a better exhibit. Last year STUBO was renovating our apartments during April and that interferred with my preparations, to say the least. Anyway, I am going to build a "spooky forest" in the hobby room but I can?t do anything that I can?t undo at the end of the exhibit (like hammer nails into the walls). There?s a hallway leading into the main area so I?ll set-up tension curtain rods across part of that and I can hang some gauze curtains from them. I?ll set-up the tables in the main area so it?s like a banquet hall but with fabric bowls, etc. Think Judy Chicago?s The Dinner Party without the ceramics. :-)
Plus I have some ideas on stuff for the kids to do. There are about 10-15 kids who live in this apartment complex and they expect something fun after last year (when we decorated the little, fabric bags. Plus, I had a craft day with them on Feb. 19th (that was why I didn?t go to the party with Harri). The entire exhibit will have a Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter feel to it (I hope!!!) so I want to do something that will tie-in with that.
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Hope that wasn't TMI!!! Anyway, I will be making my Gandalf/Witchy hat sometime during the next couple of days. :-) I've sown patches onto an old, black broomstick skirt and I'll pin it up in places to look even more tattered. Who knows what I'll come up with between now and May 5th!!!
I got a bunch of rush work I'm working on and haven't had much time to write. If this lady doesn't hand me more when I turn it in tomorrow I'll be back. :)
Larry, have you replaced your needle? That problem sounds very much like a burr on the eye of the needle causing the tread to shred.
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If that isn't the problem, check for a burr on the hole in the plate where the needle goes through. If there are any rough patches, use
*fine* emory cloth to smooth it.
Funny you should mention it. My life has been going to hell in a sewing etui for some time now, but that's fairly normal, boring stuff, mixed in with a bare ration of altering items, as I have been ill. Here's the interesting tid-bits: I hang with a bunch of buds I've known for years, meeting every Thurs. at a nearby military base to bowl and catch up on each others weekly events. Thurs before last, we were barely inside the building before a couple of handlers brought in a dog. Me, I'm joking the handlers that he wasn't much of a drug-sniffer, as my purse was loaded with drugs. (Picked up my prescriptions beforehand.) Guy jerked his head back and studied me---(now, keep in mind, due to thyroid, I look like a mad Bette Davis, which alone causes people to stare.) My disguise of hanging out with fairly normal-looking older women must have worked, 'cause I'm still on the loose. Turns out the dog was a bomb-squad dog. Another guy in civvies props all the doors open...time passes...I spent most of Feb. in bed with upper respiratory/bronchial infection...it's cold, I'm seeing my breath on the air...so I approach the guy to ask politely why he's airing out my lungs. One hand goes to his hip, the other he sticks in my face, like a school crossing guard, as he says they are bringing someone in on a stretcher. Madder and madder, said the Queen to Alice. I've bowled on a walking cast one league, but...with an armed guard...from a stretcher?? Eventually a heavily-armed armed phalanx of men arrives, with an ordinary-looking fellow in the middle of the protective ring. Sub-machine guns, listening devices, all sorts of high-tech goodies. We were all curious, so when this cute young fellow sat down behind me
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:14:06 -0800, the inscrutable "BEI Design" spake:
No, but I will tonight so it'll be done before using it again tomorrow. I figure this one has had a few hours of sewing, and my thicker materials probably wear them faster than thins would. Thanks for the reminder. I checked and it's still very sharp.
Thanks, I'll check that, too.
--- After they make styrofoam, what do they ship it in? --Steven Wright
It depends on which Melinda you're inquiring about, we're well in the southern half of Oz so were not affected in any way by TC Ingrid, we did get a couple days of rain and temps are cooler, autumn may be on the way yet! I have almost completed a pair of PJ's for DS, the top needs button holes and buttons. I didn't feel like starting a new project until I had finished the PJ's so I got out the bits for my second hand pieced quilt top to work on. I've a small dyeing job to do tommorow if I get most of the washing out of the way today. My sewing area is now in the dining room rather than the second bedroom, DS now has his own bedroom, while the sewing area is a little cramped it works would work better if I had a bigger power board to plug things into.
Begining of the month I went to a national championship competition and did very well. A fortnight a ago my grandma fell and broke her hip, she also has a mass near her pancreas that is unidentified, it keeps changing size so it's apparently not cancerous. DS is very well getting a bit chubby round the middle so he's probably going into another growth spurt soon.
Dance costumes - 'tis that time of year again! I have almost no ambition left after making the can-can petticoats (12 of them using 150 metres of white broadcloth!), 15 pairs of lace-trimmed bloomers, 6 shirred aprons and matching kerchiefs, 6 old-fashioned vests, knickers and mock-tallits - all before doing the altering of my own daughter's group costumes and making her solo costumes! Oh: - I forgot about the black tutu - I had two days notice for that one! They thought the parents would buy the different components at the local dance shop and come up with a facsimile of a tutu for their 15 year old daughter (with me doing the magic, of course). Not on your life! I've sewn for the dear girl for years and she was not going out in garbage that would cost over $75 and still look like crud - even after I worked on it. So:- working like a demon possessed (had to be - making a tutu on that short notice!) I got one made from scratch and ready to present by the deadline. Then, I took it back and finished the darned thing properly! Same girl now needs five more solo costumes made.....Also have to make three other jazz solos for two other girls. None of them dance at the same studio as my own daughter, but I do my best for them anyway. (In fact, black tutu girl is at the same level as my daughter and usually takes first place - I'm almost as happy for her as her own mother is!) Cynthia
Well, as you can see by the picture on Ron's site, it can *seem* very sharp, but actually be quite dull. I posted that link just for illustration purposes. I was not referring to the *point* of the needle in my post, I actually meant that a burr in the *eye* might be causing your project to "... go along merrily for 20' or so and the thread loses one of its strands, ...". In most cases, when thread going through the needle breaks, it is because it's catching on a rough place *in the eye*. The cure for that is a new needle.
Sounds like a needle problem. Have you tried a new one? Sometimes even a new needle is less than perfect... Or try a slightly larger size needle, or one for top stitching, with a bigger eye.
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:08:28 +0000, the inscrutable Kate Dicey spake:
I looked in the box which came with the machine and it appears that the package of needles which came with it are all used. Feh! Well, I needed to do some grocery shopping today anyway.
Good price/source for a pack of 110-18 industrial needles?
I'm right here. I had to move last summer because of all kinds of reasons, mostly health and lost my sewing room. Had to get rid of LOTS of things that I had become quite attached to, like my grandmother's bed and my mangle Ironrite ironer and Lord knows how much stash and craft stuff and two sewing machines. I also had to get rid of all my bird stuff and outdoor plants since there was no balcony or patio at the new place. I had to move into a TINY one bedroom apartment that got next to no sunlight.......I felt like I was living in a cave, and since I don't get out very often it was really beginning to take a toll on me. I was told that there would be a little larger one bedroom coming up in a month (which should have been August) so I never really unpacked. I felt like I was living in a storage locker with boxes piled to the ceiling on most of the walls and just a few trails just wide enough for my wheelchair to get to bed, bath and kitchen. Now, eight months later and I'm really in the dumps, haven't seen my sewing, crafts or books and finally tossed out all my once lush but now dead house plants. The kids next door are always crying, and who ever lives above me I swear gives clogging lessons about 14 hours a day. I am not a happy camper :o(
Now for the rest of the story.....I was inform last week by the property management people they were really sorry that I had been misinformed by the no longer here managers and that I will be able to move May 1st into a TWO bedroom on the top floor, corner apartment with a HUGE balcony! The bedrooms aren't nearly as large as in my former two bedroom but I WILL have a place to put out my sewing and craft things and the window of that room is HUGE and looks right out onto the balcony where I will once again have my flowers and bird feeders and birdbath fountain. It faces southwest so I will have lots of light for my plants and a view of the mountains and a peak of the sound......and a fireplace! And if that isn't good news enough......they are going to be putting in all new carpeting, my choice, flooring and counter tops, also my choice and will plumb the closet in the room that I will use for my sewing so that I can put my stacking washer dryer in there.....and all new appliances, self cleaning oven, (happy dance), fridge and dishwasher.
The new managers are just a darling young couple with an 8 month old baby. They have this place really coming together. The hallways are vacuumed regularly, lobby is always clean and no litter around and fix things as soon as you ask.......plus I get to play with the sweetest little fellow ;) When they come to vacuum my hallway, usually 'daddy', he has the baby in the stroller and we have worked out a deal.....I play with baby while he cleans for the 20 minutes it takes him to vacuum and he takes out my garbage to the dumpster. Works nicely! I know the people who will be my new neighbors and they are very nice (and quiet) and I won't have 'cloggers' overhead since I'm on the top floor. The actual move is being taken care of by new friends I have met at church. As one lady put it......we have half the high school football team here, between the ladies taking care of breakables and the boys doing the heavy stuff we'll have you moved, unpacked and settled in no time.
I had given all my outdoor plants to a gentleman who is a good friend of a good friend. He has called to say that all but two of the containers made it through the winter and when I was ready he and his boys will be more than happy to deliver and set them up for me. You have no idea how happy I am!! I just needed to share with you all since these newsgroups have sort of given me my vicarious joy while I was going through these really depressing months.
Life is good!
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